Sunday Service 5-16-10
Awe, Diligently Seek Him, and Obey
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Amazing Grace, How Great Thou Art- songs expressing the awe of God.
Quantum theory, as Einstein began to understand it, proclaimed that there is no way that we can claim there is no God.
We don’t have a fear of God anymore.
Don’t fear the giant before you, but look at the God behind you.
Incline our eyes on Him and expect to see an awesome God all the time.
We break His Laws because we don’t see Him in awe. The people who keep their eyes on God will see the miracles of God.
We compromise by taking our eyes off God. When someone comes up to you and says "I have a disease", don’t think of yourself. Think of God Who is able to take care of it.
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If the world feared the Lord, we would be living in a different world.
God is God and you don’t fool with Him.
Our God is an awesome God – He has this wisdom, love, power
Heb 11:6 Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently search for him
Some of us acknowledge He exists, in the sense of knowing a place exists; a lot of us know about God, but we haven’t been seeking Him. We haven’t been there.
No one knows about electricity- we know it exists- but if we align ourselves with its rules, know how it works, it becomes a powerful tool for us.
We need to believe He exists. HE is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
It is a reward to diligently seek Him. God is to be awed.
The destroyer of revivals is when people seek the wonders instead of the Wonder.
We get faith by awing Him. We can only have faith by awing Him first. We are talking about saying, "The awesomeness of God is!"
Your faith is no good without God.
It is not the switch that works, it is the electricity that is connected to the switch.
If you want to get the Life, you need to get to the Life Giver- it is Him!
You don’t fool with electricity, You don’t fool with God! There IS an anecdote- the Blood of Jesus! You have to have the reverence for God. There will be no true awe, if you don’t seek Him.
Know the God of your Father!
HAVE PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF HIM! HE IS YOUR LIFE! You need to have personal, individual knowledge of God. What is your personal knowledge of GOD?
Do you have a personal knowledge of God?
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Psa 119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments
2Ch 15:15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
Jer 29:13
(13) And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Consider the illustration of the Buddha holding the man under water – "when you want God as much as your breath, then you will attain"
Until you want to seek that place, until you have a sense of pain of needing God too much, only then you will find that knowledge of God.
Mat 6:33-34
(33) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
(34) Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Every day has it’s own stuff, but God is there.
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If we have this fear and awe of God, we must obey him
OBEY
1Sa 15:22-23
(22) And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
(23) For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
God will require of you to destroy everything that is not of God. Saul was told to destroy it all because it is going to affect you. We take little vacations from God.. the only way to get rid of it is to destroy the places that you go.
To obey is better than sacrifice. You must not reject the word of the Lord.
Consider the analogy of going to a job offer that you will get if you get there on time. By being careless, the tires wear out and you have to change the tire. You will get there (the blood of Jesus)
Obedience is to fear God, awe Him. It is a commitment. When Churchill showed up in England, there needed to be a commitment and it would cost. For England not to would mean it’s destruction.
Obedience mean you will have enough integrity to get back up
Make a commitment, meaning you will go through hell if need be, but do not slip from your integrity.
When you have a fear of God, nothing will let you slip from your commitment or your life with God. Those areas that you think make us weak, with a commitment that makes us strong.
We submit… work with God, because He is an awesome God.
Obedience takes commitment, follow through. It is the awesome God behind and in front of you that brings you to the point of success.
Exo 19:5-6
(5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
(6) And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. )
Even though we make a commitment it doesn’t mean it is going to be easy. We need to be loyal. It is not a matter of the act being achieved as it is the heart to want to.
By the time Gideon was done, there was only 300 people, dedicated, people of commitment to serve.
We need to make our commitment to God. Join the service and try to take the position away from the sergeant. We need that seriousness of commitment to God.
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